Nick Tingren was one of those guys who dropped into the Chromag Family by proximity. Shredding dirt jumps with a casual effortless style, Nick approached mountain biking as if he’d been doing it for years. Put him on a bmx or skateboard and it's obvious that proximity sense comes naturally to the Alien. Live in the home of Eric Lawrenuk and you’re going to be exposed to a variety of elements…some more toxic than others. One side effect is that you’ll be dragged into the deep mossy woods of the North Shore on a regular basis. So the skateboarder, turned BMXer, turned dirt jumper learns trail skills and unsurprisingly, this also came naturally.

Style, the essence of the Stylus

Along with confident descending, Nick takes the Stylus upside down on his hand built trail

Toxic moss

The last breath of Vancouver's wet and short winter days

Reap what you sow. Nick put in the hours on his trail

Dirt jump style on a hard tail which can pedal, Nick's riding style embodies the Stylus

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Pinkbike tells us, soon we'll be needing a full sus to go to the post office, and according to the latest Meta V4 review: "carbon frames, we could not resist dreaming of how much more fun the Meta X4 would be to ride" so now we need carbon too..

Articles like this only reinforce the ideology that we all need a carbon full sus to have a good time. By saying "Who Says Hard Tails Don't Shred" it brings up the idea that something different would be better. I end my short rants by looking at dropper posts.. when they were newish I remember people saying they were overkill and not needed - how they're on every enduro bike because we 'need' them

Agreed. I built up a rootdown last winter for exactly this reason (I'm still in school and poor). It keeps up with the fs guys in the steep bits (up and down) and will even give the xc bikes a run for their money. The layout takes a lot more input to ride well, but is definitely the most fun I've had on two wheels.

i've wanted a stylus so bad for so long... but yeah, if i could only have one bike for ever, i'd go back to basics and have the best all arounder. you could also get a 120mm DJ pike and make this bad boy a DJ bike. so perfect.

Love the hard tail!, I recently bent my 2011 Giant Reign X0 frame so am currently riding around on my Avanti Hotdog (The original design by the guy who also made the Avanti D . Even though it was a bit of a shock i am back to shredding on it, used to do road gaps and ride our local DH track here in Wellington (NZ) on it, here is a link to the pic of it (If the link works!).

Went for a sightseeing hike through this zone yesterday. The precision required to just ride these trails is enough to be pro. The fact that Nick so effortlessly flows and tricks these features sets him on a level above even most other pros. Once again the Chromag team demonstrates their ability to nurture talent to an exceptional level! Huge respect for this video thanks for sharing!

Holy damn, riding so fast with flats on a HT is truly inpressive, he must have the most supple feet and most active bottom out there. I could take my arse down most places on earth on an HT but I need clips to stay on at higher speeds

My AM fully bike is currently in the shop, so I took my steel frame NS Bitch for a trail ride today on the local flow trail. I was able to rip the berms and jumps so much easier than on my Turner 5 Spot, which is my usual daily steed.

Just before my son was born 10 years ago, I built up my trusty stylus. For a very long time it was my only bike. We used to joke that it was the Nomad hard tail. You can ride them anywhere on anything. Lately I'm on a ss Rootdown and its pretty much the same idea. You will be so happy with this frame and you will have it for a very long time. Smart buy

I'm gonna assume this was for me. It's great buying a frame that has nearly 100% positive reviews. Can't frickin' wait. My inbetween set up is a rigid 29er (don't ask) and I've never yearned for a bike part like my Pike that is collecting dust waiting for this frame.

Mine's geared for the nasty climbs around here, but it is so responsive and nimble (for a 29er) that it must make an outstanding ss! It really wants to be manhandled and thrown into/over/around everything.

My bike and I love it. Unfortunately, my riding doesn't quite measure up... The Stylus is Chromag's heavy duty bike - the large frame weighed about 7.5 lb and with Fox 36 float 160 and Saint brakes mine is about 31lb. So it is not a light weight, pedal really fast type of bike. But for goofing around, jumps, drops, tech and just having tons of fun it is hard to beat. I ride mine everywhere.

I sold my 160mm full sus for a 150mm hardtail and I'm loving it! I'm having so much more fun on the hardtail especially in the UK. I,m a tad slower over the rough stuff but who cares, I'm having more fun!!! Hardtails all the way!!

Most people, definitely those of a certain age, will have found their love of bikes on a rigid rear end. There will always be something perfect about having your feet connected to the back wheel in such a way, no matter how many linkages, remotes and switches they come up with.

I get you on that ! I bought a Guerilla Gravity because they basically are my neighbors.

The Kamui (or the Samurai, idk) is made in Whistler I think. And even if t's not as heavy-duty as the Stylus, it looks pretty strong. My aperture, the "Low-cost" version of the kamui was already feeling strong enough to endure quite burly trails

They do make a version of the Stylus in Canada, I have one myself and it is called the TRL. Mike Truelove in Squamish B.C. welds them up with USA True Temper tubes and the they are then painted by Chris Dekerf in Richmond B.C. All the machine work on the frame including the head tube badge is all made in Canada at the North Shore Billet machine shop in Function Junction, Whistler BC. The nice thing about the production frames is they let people get into a Chromag for a reasonable price, if you have the money they can build you a dream machine too.